This week Twitter continued its self-destructive behavior when it expanded its Tweet length to 280 characters. This is a problem because Twitter has been defined by constraint. It was the value proposition for users. When I looked at my feed there was the promise that no one person would take too much of my bandwidth. So for the past decade we learned to speak ... Continue Reading about Twitter and the Lack of Constraint
Information Design
Information is one of this generation's greatest challenges. The explosion of information is matched only by new tools for sharing it with one another. Information design is the next frontier. Ambient monitors living on our wrists and pockets have created spaces for push notifications of all kinds. Endless pummeling of the inbox with this and that with no regard ... Continue Reading about Information Design
Cureus Redefines Medical Publishing
For several hundred years the barrier to publication for doctors was remarkably high. If you had something to say it was in a journal. All of this was permission-based and limited by the space allocated to the pages of a magazine. The web changed this. With the democratization of media every physician has grown accustomed to having a voice. But medical publishing ... Continue Reading about Cureus Redefines Medical Publishing
Fax Machines: Why Doctors Use Them
Yesterday Twitter carried a query from a Vox journalist about doctors and fax machines. Why do we use them? The response by the health infosphere was predictable: Why can't doctors just get with the program? And why are they so behind the times? It's not that complicated. And it's not because we don't read Wired. Just the fax EHRs don't talk to one another. We ... Continue Reading about Fax Machines: Why Doctors Use Them
Cognitive Diversity – When to Share
I stumbled on this quote from Clive Thompson. It captures what I face as a thinking, writing, tweeting health professional: "Knowing when to shift between public and private thinking—when to blast an idea online, when to let it slow bake—is a crucial new skill: cognitive diversity."-- Clive Thompson Our ability to write, record and send stuff to the world has ... Continue Reading about Cognitive Diversity – When to Share
The Illusion of Empowerment
As reported by Politico, Epic CEO Judy Faulkner found herself in hot water when she told Joe Biden that, irrespective of access, he wouldn't understand his medical record. The social health infosphere was outraged. My take: Judy was wrong to imply that Joe shouldn't have access to his stuff. Judy was right to suggest that a chunk of Joe's stuff is beyond what he ... Continue Reading about The Illusion of Empowerment